I am routing for a google Hulu deal (as a user of google tv and Hulu)! :D

4:39 pm July 5, 2011

Mike Pavulack wrote :

Streaming 500 channels 24/7 to your cable box will not last forever. It's a waste of bandwidth and consumers will abandon their $125/mo cable bill in droves when reasonable quality content is available via the web.

The content providers care about two things, 1) to keep control over their content, and 2) to keep you from skipping commercials (or otherwise to be paid for the content).

Users want a single or minimal number of websites to find content (nobody wants to check 37 different websites to see if new episodes of the shows they like are available). They also want variety.

As much as I like Apple, they are going to lose this battle. They require content providers make too many concessions to be available via iTunes.

The winner will likely be Hulu or Fanhattan (or the like). Fanhattan and Hulu can act as a front - a single point of entry - for content that is hosted on a thousand different web sites. They can also force you to watch commercials - something advertisers are well aware that people with cable and TiVo no longer do.

Hulu could be worth a fortune in the battle to supplant your cable company.

5:28 pm July 5, 2011

shawn wrote :

Yes I own a Sony brain Google tv and it would be awesome if Google acquired hulu.

5:29 pm July 5, 2011

Shawn wrote :

Bravia Danny phones Autocorrect

1:18 am July 6, 2011

Kangaruhs wrote :

After they acquire Hulu, they should then purchase Steam.

11:11 am July 6, 2011

Gate J wrote :

Hulu is drying up in my opinion, waste of money.

8:06 pm July 6, 2011

joe wrote :

I own a GoogleTV, and I canceled my Comcast and TiVo because it makes sense. Now if they would just get busy with a Hulu+ app for it, I'd gladly give them a monthly subscription price for it.

2:48 am July 7, 2011

rob wrote :

Just bought google tv...love it..hulu on board would be icing onboard would be icing on the cake..can't wait to ditch cable tv subscription

4:50 pm July 10, 2011

seth wrote :

own a google tv blu ray. No need for cable.

11:31 am July 18, 2011

Aimhetep wrote :

We have a Logitech Revue, and we just keep finding more things to do with it. Happy with it for the $180 that we paid for it. In our case, it helped us get more out of our Dish Network service. The browser is a big plus, as well. I think some people had the wrong expectations for these devices.

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